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DESCRIPTION:Haley\nSwedlund on&nbsp\;Dicey\nDonors: \n\nHow\ndonor commitme
 nt problems can explain changing foreign aid practicesHaley Swedlund\,&nbs
 p\;Assistant\nProfessor\, Radboud\nUniversity Nijmegen\, NetherlandSeveral
 \npuzzling facts about contemporary foreign aid practices can be explained
  as a\nconsequence of donor commitment problems. In particular\, I conside
 r the\nadoption of budget support – or a direct resource transfer of aid f
 unds into\nthe recipient country’s treasury. Using a simple model of aid p
 olicy bargaining\nand data from interviews with key decision-makers in Rwa
 nda and Tanzania\, I\nargue that (1) recipient governments are willing to 
 grant donors greater\ninfluence over development policy decision making in
  exchange for more credible\ndonor promises\, and (2) donors are willing t
 o limit the tools they use to\naddress contentious issues in exchange for 
 more influence.Haley\nSwedlund received her PhD from the\nDepartment of Po
 litical Science at the Maxwell School in 2011 and is now an\nAssistant Pro
 fessor at Radboud University Nijmegen in the\nNetherlands. Her current res
 earch develops and tests a theoretical framework\nfor understanding donor-
 government relations and institutional change in\nforeign aid. She has con
 ducted interviews with key decision makers involved in\naid policy bargain
 ing in Ghana\, Rwanda\, Tanzania and Uganda\, as well as a\nlarge-scale su
 rvey of top-level donor officials in twenty countries in\nSub-Saharan Afri
 ca.Sponsored by the Transnational NGO Initiative at the &nbsp\;Moynihan In
 stitute of Global Affairs&nbsp\;  
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SUMMARY:TNGO presents: Haley Swedlund
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p></p><p><b>Haley\nSwedlund on&nbsp\;Dicey\nD
 onors: \n\nHow\ndonor commitment problems can explain changing foreign aid
  practices</b></p><p><b>Haley Swedlund\,&nbsp\;</b><i>Assistant\nProfessor
 \, Radboud\nUniversity Nijmegen\, Netherland</i></p><p>Several\npuzzling f
 acts about contemporary foreign aid practices can be explained as a\nconse
 quence of donor commitment problems. In particular\, I consider the\nadopt
 ion of budget support – or a direct resource transfer of aid funds into\nt
 he recipient country’s treasury. Using a simple model of aid policy bargai
 ning\nand data from interviews with key decision-makers in Rwanda and Tanz
 ania\, I\nargue that (1) recipient governments are willing to grant donors
  greater\ninfluence over development policy decision making in exchange fo
 r more credible\ndonor promises\, and (2) donors are willing to limit the 
 tools they use to\naddress contentious issues in exchange for more influen
 ce.</p><p>Haley\nSwedlund received her PhD from the\nDepartment of Politic
 al Science at the Maxwell School in 2011 and is now an\nAssistant Professo
 r at Radboud University Nijmegen in the\nNetherlands. Her current research
  develops and tests a theoretical framework\nfor understanding donor-gover
 nment relations and institutional change in\nforeign aid. She has conducte
 d interviews with key decision makers involved in\naid policy bargaining i
 n Ghana\, Rwanda\, Tanzania and Uganda\, as well as a\nlarge-scale survey 
 of top-level donor officials in twenty countries in\nSub-Saharan Africa.</
 p><p><b><i>Sponsored by the Transnational NGO Initiative at the &nbsp\;Moy
 nihan Institute of Global Affairs&nbsp\;</i></b></p><p> </p><p> </p><p></p
 >
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